Professional Practice, Client Management & Report Writing
Project Management for Real Estate Advisory
Run an engagement that lands on time, on budget, and on scope — charters, schedules, meetings, minutes, documented traceability and closeout, built for real estate advisory and development work.
The promise
Run an engagement that lands on time, on budget, and on scope — and be able to prove afterwards what you did and why.
By the end you can
- Write a charter that fixes scope, out-of-scope, and the definition of done
- Build a schedule with a real critical path, and know when a Gantt earns its place
- Run a weekly meeting and issue minutes that create accountability
- Apply ISO 9001, ISO 10013, and ISO 15489 to documents, records, and traceability
- Control change and cost before the fee erodes
Curriculum
What a Project Actually Is
The difference between a project and ordinary work, the constraints every project trades against, the lifecycle it moves through, and the specific ways real estate and advisory projects fail before anyone opens a spreadsheet.
The Project Charter
The single document that authorises a project and fixes what it is: objectives, scope and explicit out-of-scope, assumptions, constraints, success criteria, and the signature that makes it binding.
Stakeholders, Roles and RACI
Finding everyone who can affect or block the project, separating the person you deal with from the person who decides, and using RACI to put exactly one name against every deliverable.
Planning: WBS, Timelines and Gantt Charts
Breaking work down until it can be estimated, estimating honestly, finding the critical path, and knowing when a Gantt chart earns its place — and when it is decoration.
Communication and Meetings
The communication plan that stops ad-hoc chasing, a weekly meeting that is worth the hour it costs, minutes that create accountability rather than transcript, and status reporting that surfaces problems while they are still cheap.
Filing, Traceability and ISO
Filing and naming conventions a stranger can navigate, version control that survives a handover, the three ISO standards that govern documents and records — 9001, 10013 and 15489 — and what documented information and traceability actually require in practice.
Risk, Cost and Closeout
Running a RAID log that changes behaviour, controlling change before it erodes the fee, tracking cost against progress rather than against calendar, and closing a project so the next one is cheaper.
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